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first deep well. There are now more than a dozen of these deep wells, 14 to 20 inches in diameter, tapping another strata of water at depths of from 275 to 500 feet.. Pioneers in the pumping project include C. C. Sloan, W. W. Cook, Charles Baxter, Walter Weber, Jacob Weber, J. S. Hickman, C. M. Husbands, J. L. Griffiths, W. H. Hendrickson, C. T. Martin, Clark Kesler, Tomsick & Reisner, Kent Smith, F. W. Gospill, J. H. Rollins, Dr. Charles R. Parrish, H. C. Eyre, Lotan Kesler, H. P. Mack, Simon Kesler, Melvin Fillmore, W. H. Smith, Gene Hickman, Edward Dryden, Vern Evans, Ambrose McGarry, F. W. Williams, J. W. Kirk, Richard Johnson, E. C. McGarry, Frank Weice, Stanley Mobious, D. E. Kirk, Leroy Luken, Argo Brown and C. G. Haskell. MILFORD VALLEY PUMPING DISTRICTS In 1919, there was an appropriation by the Utah State Legislature, made to finance experiments in various ways to develop water for irrigation from wells. The idea was to test different districts to see if there was a formation underground that would produce a sufficient flow of water for irrigation and also to experiment in the kind of wells and well casings that would get the maximum flow of water from the different formations that were tested. There had been several attempts to get a pumping stream from makeshift wells in the Milford pumping district before this time. These had given enough showing of water to indicate that there was good formation for underground water development. The state shipped a new well rig to Milford and started a crew to work on the Berkheimer farm, three miles south of Milford. Two years earlier, Mr. Berkheimer had started to clear his land, and a centrifugal pump powered by an electric motor had been installed. He had built his own power line from Milford, and was irrigating a small acreage of alfalfa and sugar beets. Neither was successful, however, as the perforations in the well casing clogged up so badly in the middle of the summer

first deep well. There are now more than a dozen of these deep wells, 14 to 20 inches in diameter, tapping another strata of water at depths of from 275 to 500 feet.. Pioneers in the pumping project include C. C. Sloan, W. W. Cook, Charles Baxter, Walter Weber, Jacob Weber, J. S. Hickman, C. M. Husbands, J. L. Griffiths, W. H. Hendrickson, C. T. Martin, Clark Kesler, Tomsick & Reisner, Kent Smith, F. W. Gospill, J. H. Rollins, Dr. Charles R. Parrish, H. C. Eyre, Lotan Kesler, H. P. Mack, Simon Kesler, Melvin Fillmore, W. H. Smith, Gene Hickman, Edward Dryden, Vern Evans, Ambrose McGarry, F. W. Williams, J. W. Kirk, Richard Johnson, E. C. McGarry, Frank Weice, Stanley Mobious, D. E. Kirk, Leroy Luken, Argo Brown and C. G. Haskell. MILFORD VALLEY PUMPING DISTRICTS In 1919, there was an appropriation by the Utah State Legislature, made to finance experiments in various ways to develop water for irrigation from wells. The idea was to test different districts to see if there was a formation underground that would produce a sufficient flow of water for irrigation and also to experiment in the kind of wells and well casings that would get the maximum flow of water from the different formations that were tested. There had been several attempts to get a pumping stream from makeshift wells in the Milford pumping district before this time. These had given enough showing of water to indicate that there was good formation for underground water development. The state shipped a new well rig to Milford and started a crew to work on the Berkheimer farm, three miles south of Milford. Two years earlier, Mr. Berkheimer had started to clear his land, and a centrifugal pump powered by an electric motor had been installed. He had built his own power line from Milford, and was irrigating a small acreage of alfalfa and sugar beets. Neither was successful, however, as the perforations in the well casing clogged up so badly in the middle of the summer